From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 9 10:15:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778DB37B502 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jking (jking.lgc.com [134.132.76.82]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with SMTP id e99HFWR58010; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:15:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <014201c03214$885aa330$524c8486@jking> From: "Jim King" To: "Vivek Khera" , References: <14817.64539.984808.362682@yertle.kciLink.com> Subject: Re: effective use of serial console Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:15:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vivek Khera wrote: > I've got a stack of servers at a co-lo facililty about 35 minutes > drive from here (non-rush hour...) and I'd like to make best use of > the serial console feature of FreeBSD. > > So far with my in-office experiments, I have been able to do just > about everything I need. My only question is how can I force a reboot > similar to the CTL-ALT-DEL key sequence on a local console? I was > hoping a BREAK signal would do it, but the best I can do is make it > drop to a debugger. I don't really need debugger support in my > production kernels, but I guess if that's the only way to accomplish > it... > > How do others set this up? I guess I'm really looking for a really > fail-safe serial console. I use reboot(8) or shutdown(8). On RARE occasions I have to call the guy at my colo and have him intervene physically. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message